I Hate burning CDs. Its a slow tedious procedure and the CD is useless once the install is completed. So, faced with having no CDRs available to burn my newly downloaded Puppy Linux 4.00 iso. I searched around for a way to install puppy with out burning any CD.

I have a Sony Vaio FS630W laptop running Ubuntu. The general idea is to mount the iso so it can be read like a mounted CD. Copy the files on the iso to a directory and tell grub how to boot from that directory. Follow along:

4. Copy the files on the iso image to a permanent directory. This is the directory GRUB will boot Puppy from.

sudo mkdir /puppy
sudo cp /media/iso/* /puppy

5. Now that all the Puppy files are copied to your /puppy directory, you no longer need the iso so go ahead and unmount it.

sudo umount /media/iso

6. Now we change the menu.lst file of grub to enable booting our new pet.

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

7. Copy the configuration below to the bottom of the menu.lst file. Keep in mind the "root (hd0,2) means the 3rd partition on my machine. You must use the same number as the one where your /puppy directory is located.

8. Save the menu.lst file and reboot your system. When the Grub menu comes up, use the down arrow to highlight the puppylinux selection and puppy will boot just as if you had booted the computer with a CD.

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Instructions there offer you the ability to boot any PC on your LAN.
In fact, the instructions show you how to:

have it boot without user interaction straight to desktop

have it boot allowing user to hit F2 and tailor Puppy start options

have it boot to a GRUB menu where the user can select which PUP the PC is to boot

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I do a frugall install to hard-disk like this.
Example for slacko in partition sda6 :
- create a new folder SLACKO-5.3 in partition /mnt/sda6/
- download slacko iso
- left click iso to mount it
- copy 3 files : initrd.gz, *.sfs and vmlinuz in folder /mnt/sda6/SLACKO-5.3/
- left click iso to unmount it
- for grub, add to menu.lst :

those that are on Ubuntu versions now them have grub2 so
you need to give them the curly {
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not an ideal solution though

Yet another way to install is to download one of the install exe files for windows.
You download the exe for the Puppy of your choice, or follow the directions closely on making an exe install file for Puppy.
Run the exe file and Puppy gets installed.
No burning required.

I ask if the mount point should be a folder or a partition on hd o usb disk, if I have ubuntu on hd can I create mount point on ubuntu and load puppylinux from a folder on ubuntu???

Short answer: folder works fine. As long as you 'point' grub to where you are booting from, you can put puppy in a folder and tell grub to boot from that folder.

But as you can see from the various other posts, there are many, many ways to get Puppy installed and running. I've used the Window's exe installer many times on various types of Puppy as well, works great. Viva la versatility of Puppy!

The initial instructions listed by the first poster are a good outline of roughly what I do all the time, trying out new Puppy's and such. Takes as long as the download takes, installs quickly, etc. Did that to try out the new Slacko yesterday, works like a champ.

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